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Offline MadHatter

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What is up with the strats?
« on: January 27, 2010, 01:02:58 AM »
Alright, it's Titanic Tuesday, so the Pogues did what they do every Tuesday and that's host a strat run. So we gather up about 17 or so buff drivers and hit the sky. On the 1st run we knocked the city down to 11% and all the other strats down to about 50%. Well we figured that since we have the city pretty well demolished we'll go do it again and knocked it the rest of the way down. Halfway there, the outlying strats are already at 100%, city is still 11%. So we split forces again and hit the strats...again. Here's where it gets weird. Swoops and I go in and hit the remaining city blocks on the first pass. City is now at 3%. We noticed that even tho we hit dead center (with 500's) some blocks just refuse to go boom. Turn, box around to the north, come at it again. We hit every standing structure, still no boom, except 1 block. City is at 2%. We hit every single block. Where's the other 2%? There are 2 flak towers inside the Industrial Center. Are they it? If so, does it take the same amount of ords to drop them as it does the HQ? (36k) With no flak, no resistance, and buff drivers able to drive a nail at 30K it would take a minimum of 6 B-17's loaded with 250's to destroy the Industrial Center. If you take in account the flak towers (if they are HQ strength) It would take 12 B-17's just for them (loaded with 1k's) or 6 Lancs. What is it going to take to finish this city off?
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Re: What is up with the strats?
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2010, 04:05:59 AM »
the strat system is like that. Buff runs are taking longer and longer yet the strat seems to only stay down 30minutes, even if you get the city below 50% those outlying strats rebuild very fast. I just dont understand it, it doesnt follow the rules (of the game) at all.

PS im pretty certain that the flaktowers do not count.
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Re: What is up with the strats?
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2010, 09:03:37 AM »
There are a lot of buff divers. If strats stay down what will they bomb.

Sounds like everyone gets a chance the way it is setup now.
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Re: What is up with the strats?
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2010, 09:19:29 AM »
At the old strats eack flak counted for 1%.  I haven't even seen the new strats/city yet.
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Re: What is up with the strats?
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2010, 12:44:27 PM »
Skuzzy posted this morning that they are in the process of repairing the MA terrains.

IF this was a repaired terrain, load it off-line and type in the following command:

.det F01CIT 2

This will detonate all the city buildings at the strat city. You'll note that the flack towers are not CIT buildings, and that the only buildings that are part of the city are the multi-story urban and industrial buildings, not the (mostly) single story suburban blocks.

.restore F01CIT will repair them.

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Re: What is up with the strats?
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2010, 04:27:15 PM »
Skuzzy posted this morning that they are in the process of repairing the MA terrains.

Ok that would make sense, the terrain might not have been repaired then. Also explains why some blocks wouldn't detonate. I am having a bit of trouble with the command tho. I probably need to mess with the offline a bit more tho.

As for everyone getting their chance, the only time I see a strat get hit is when we host a mission. At least on the Rook side. Either way, it seems to me that most pilots are worried about their score versus taking bases and causing a reset. I've been chewed out for bombing a VH at an airfield because we had GV's camping the spawn. I've also been chewed out for wasting my time bombing the strat. I guess to each their own, but my guys fly the MA for a reason. If we just want to fight we'll go to the DA, but if we're in the MA, you can bet we're going after targets. Sorry for the bit of a rant, but the strats represent a potentially valuable target. I aint wasting my time.
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Re: What is up with the strats?
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2010, 06:06:24 PM »
Flak over strat is deadly.
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Re: What is up with the strats?
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2010, 07:00:37 PM »
Moral of the story, the strat ain't all that :D

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Re: What is up with the strats?
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2010, 07:04:38 PM »
Ok that would make sense, the terrain might not have been repaired then. Also explains why some blocks wouldn't detonate. I am having a bit of trouble with the command tho. I probably need to mess with the offline a bit more tho.

As for everyone getting their chance, the only time I see a strat get hit is when we host a mission. At least on the Rook side. Either way, it seems to me that most pilots are worried about their score versus taking bases and causing a reset. I've been chewed out for bombing a VH at an airfield because we had GV's camping the spawn. I've also been chewed out for wasting my time bombing the strat. I guess to each their own, but my guys fly the MA for a reason. If we just want to fight we'll go to the DA, but if we're in the MA, you can bet we're going after targets. Sorry for the bit of a rant, but the strats represent a potentially valuable target. I aint wasting my time.

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Re: What is up with the strats?
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2010, 08:01:15 PM »
Some folks play the game to have fun.

You rant because folks rant because they don't like what your doing.  :D That there is funny stuff I tell ya!

Yea, kind of a stupid rant, sorry. It just pisses me off to do something to help another, and I'm the bad guy for it. As for the flak, haven't noticed it at 30k. I play because I'm competitive. As a buff driver, personally I believe my job is to make things easier for everyone else by removing targets. Besides a strat run is a hell of alot of fun. Our escorts always end up with a good amount of kills and it's fun to see that many people working together. I'd just like to see a reward for that cooperation.
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Re: What is up with the strats?
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2010, 07:58:30 AM »
30k in Buffs?    :rofl :rofl :rofl
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Re: What is up with the strats?
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2010, 08:02:14 AM »
30k in Buffs?    :rofl :rofl :rofl

30K for some of us is routine for that kind of mission.

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Re: What is up with the strats?
« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2010, 09:36:07 AM »
Ok that would make sense, the terrain might not have been repaired then. Also explains why some blocks wouldn't detonate. I am having a bit of trouble with the command tho. I probably need to mess with the offline a bit more tho.

Opps, I'm usually using that command on fields instead of country objects.

.det C0#CIT n
Where '#' is the owning country and 'n' is the country that destroyed it.

.det C01CIT 2 destroys all the Bish city objects.
Look at the Bish city when you use it.
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Re: What is up with the strats?
« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2010, 11:02:52 AM »
30k in Buffs?    :rofl :rofl :rofl

They like that alt.... nothing historic or anything. They just like the challenge of conserving fuel.
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Re: What is up with the strats?
« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2010, 11:51:13 AM »
They like that alt.... nothing historic or anything. They just like the challenge of conserving fuel.

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